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UDO - "We are 1"

Udo Dirkschneider is a force to be reckoned with. He may be in his late sixties but the former Accept frontman shows no sign of slowing down. This is a concept album like no other as he has enlisted a 60 piece orchestra, namely the official Concert Band of the German Armed Forces (Musikkorps der Bundeswehr). This is not just heavy metal played with an orchestra, this is heavy metal written for an orchestra. The idea and the intentions are admirable, it just goes on and on and on…